DeepMind's AI wants to beat us at video game StarCraft next

Artificial intelligence has a new target in its cross hairs for 2017: StarCraft, a real-time war strategy game series. Like other gamers before them, StarCraft fans may soon be forced to bow down to their machine overlords, as some of the biggest AI research groups set out to beat the best human players. Demis Hassabis, cofounder of Google-owned firm DeepMind, and Jeff Dean, who leads the Google Brain project, have both hinted that StarCraft will be their next target, while Facebook researchers have just released an open-source platform designed to help people develop AI to play the game. Succeeding in StarCraft would be a show of strategic strength. AI's gaming prowess reached new heights in March when DeepMind's AlphaGo system defeated one of the world's best Go players, Lee Sedol.